West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 166
... of twenty - one years , would as foon take a vomit or a purge , as a pint of wine or a glass of ftrong grog ; and yet thofe fober men were im- perceptibly I perceptibly corrupted , and in time feldom went to bed 166 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... of twenty - one years , would as foon take a vomit or a purge , as a pint of wine or a glass of ftrong grog ; and yet thofe fober men were im- perceptibly I perceptibly corrupted , and in time feldom went to bed 166 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 167
... wines , fpirituous and malt liquors ; and wreck and ftrain their conftitutions , till they break at laft ; notwithstanding , the climate is cenfured for the murder of every man who poifons himself . It is wonderful , indeed , what ...
... wines , fpirituous and malt liquors ; and wreck and ftrain their conftitutions , till they break at laft ; notwithstanding , the climate is cenfured for the murder of every man who poifons himself . It is wonderful , indeed , what ...
الصفحة 168
... Wine and ftrong liquors taken to excefs corrupt and inflame the blood - emaciate the whole frame , and dry up the course of nature : wine deprives a man of reafon , ftrength and manhood ; and infpires him with wrong no- tions and falfe ...
... Wine and ftrong liquors taken to excefs corrupt and inflame the blood - emaciate the whole frame , and dry up the course of nature : wine deprives a man of reafon , ftrength and manhood ; and infpires him with wrong no- tions and falfe ...
الصفحة 169
... Wine and ftrong liquors affect men amazingly : fome attempt difficulties , hazards and enter- prizes , which when fober they could not en- counter wine makes the trembling coward valliant , the ftuttering fool loquacious , the man of ...
... Wine and ftrong liquors affect men amazingly : fome attempt difficulties , hazards and enter- prizes , which when fober they could not en- counter wine makes the trembling coward valliant , the ftuttering fool loquacious , the man of ...
الصفحة 170
... wine , and new wine , take away the heart and foul and reafon of a man . " No man can , with the finalleft degree of propriety , attempt to apologize and ex- pect pardon for the offences he committed when intoxicated : tell me not , " I ...
... wine , and new wine , take away the heart and foul and reafon of a man . " No man can , with the finalleft degree of propriety , attempt to apologize and ex- pect pardon for the offences he committed when intoxicated : tell me not , " I ...
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